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Breast cancer histopathology image classification is critical for early detection and improved patient outcomes. 1 This study introduces a novel approach leveraging EfficientNetV2 models, to improve feature extraction and focus on relevant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-14 Naren Sengodan

Invasive ductal carcinoma is a prevalent, potentially deadly disease associated with a high rate of morbidity and mortality. Its malignancy is the second leading cause of death from cancer in women. The mammogram is an extremely useful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Rushabh Patel

Automatic multiple sclerosis (MS) lesion segmentation using multi-contrast magnetic resonance (MR) images provides improved efficiency and reproducibility compared to manual delineation. Current state-of-the-art automatic MS lesion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Jinwei Zhang , Lianrui Zuo , Blake E. Dewey , Samuel W. Remedios , Dzung L. Pham , Aaron Carass , Jerry L. Prince

In recent years, deep learning has rapidly become a method of choice for the segmentation of medical images. Deep Neural Network (DNN) architectures such as UNet have achieved state-of-the-art results on many medical datasets. To further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Truong Dang , Tien Thanh Nguyen , John McCall , Eyad Elyan , Carlos Francisco Moreno-García

In this paper, we present a novel method for the segmentation of breast masses from mammograms exploring structured and deep learning. Specifically, using structured support vector machine (SSVM), we formulate a model that combines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-08 Neeraj Dhungel , Gustavo Carneiro , Andrew P. Bradley

$\bf{Purpose:}$ The goal of this study was (i) to use artificial intelligence to automate the traditionally labor-intensive process of manual segmentation of tumor regions in pathology slides performed by a pathologist and (ii) to validate…

Accurate tumor segmentation and classification in breast ultrasound (BUS) imaging remain challenging due to low contrast, speckle noise, and diverse lesion morphology. This study presents a multi-task deep learning framework that jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Samuel E. Johnny , Bernes L. Atabonfack , Israel Alagbe , Assane Gueye

Ultrasound image segmentation faces unique challenges including speckle noise, low contrast, and ambiguous boundaries, while clinical deployment demands computationally efficient models. We propose USEANet, an ultrasound-specific edge-aware…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-12 Jingyi Gao , Di Wu , Baha lhnaini

Medical image segmentation is an important step in medical image analysis, especially as a crucial prerequisite for efficient disease diagnosis and treatment. The use of deep learning for image segmentation has become a prevalent trend. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-11 Wenjian Yao , Jiajun Bai , Wei Liao , Yuheng Chen , Mengjuan Liu , Yao Xie

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide. The most common screening technology is mammography. To reduce the cost and workload of radiologists, we propose a computer aided detection approach for classifying and localizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Pengcheng Xi , Chang Shu , Rafik Goubran

Automatic classification of breast cancer in histopathology images is crucial for accurate diagnosis and effective treatment planning. Recently, classification methods based on the ResNet architecture have gained prominence due to their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Suxing Liu

Crack detection, particularly from pavement images, presents a formidable challenge in the domain of computer vision due to several inherent complexities such as intensity inhomogeneity, intricate topologies, low contrast, and noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Abid Hasan Zim , Aquib Iqbal , Zaid Al-Huda , Asad Malik , Minoru Kuribayash

Skin cancer is one of the deadly types of cancer and is common in the world. Recently, there has been a huge jump in the rate of people getting skin cancer. For this reason, the number of studies on skin cancer classification with deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-26 Abdurrahim Yilmaz , Mucahit Kalebasi , Yegor Samoylenko , Mehmet Erhan Guvenilir , Huseyin Uvet

Medical images often exhibit low and blurred contrast between lesions and surrounding tissues, with considerable variation in lesion edges and shapes even within the same disease, leading to significant challenges in segmentation.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-12 Wang Jiangtao , Nur Intan Raihana Ruhaiyem , Fu Panpan

Lesion segmentation on computed tomography (CT) scans is an important step for precisely monitoring changes in lesion/tumor growth. This task, however, is very challenging since manual segmentation is prohibitively time-consuming,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Vatsal Agarwal , Youbao Tang , Jing Xiao , Ronald M. Summers

The rise of Transformer architectures has advanced medical image segmentation, leading to hybrid models that combine Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformers. However, these models often suffer from excessive complexity and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-17 Yousef Sadegheih , Afshin Bozorgpour , Pratibha Kumari , Reza Azad , Dorit Merhof

Detecting mass in mammogram is significant due to the high occurrence and mortality of breast cancer. In mammogram mass detection, modeling pairwise lesion correspondence explicitly is particularly important. However, most of the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Ziwei Zhao , Dong Wang , Yihong Chen , Ziteng Wang , Liwei Wang

Vision Transformers $(\texttt{ViT})$ have become the architecture of choice for many computer vision tasks, yet their performance in computer-aided diagnostics remains limited. Focusing on breast cancer detection from mammograms, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Samyak Sanghvi , Piyush Miglani , Sarvesh Shashikumar , Kaustubh R Borgavi , Veenu Singla , Chetan Arora

Purpose: Annotation of medical breast images is an essential step toward better diagnostic but a time consuming task. This research aims to focus on different selecting sample strategies within deep active learning on Breast Region…

Segmentation of lymphoma lesions is challenging due to their varied sizes and locations in whole-body PET scans. This work presents a fully-automated segmentation technique using a multi-center dataset of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma…